PhD, Astrophysics, 2019, Liverpool John Moores University

Emma will be joining Steward Observatory as the Bok Fellow in Fall 2022. She received her PhD from Liverpool John Moores University in 2019 under the supervision of Dr. Ben Davies. Following this, she was awarded a NASA Hubble Fellowship for which she was based over the road at NSF’s NOIRLab. Her research focuses on the evolution of cool supergiant stars, with the aim of constraining the progenitor-supernova-remnant connection. While at Steward, Emma will continue to build upon her work using both observations and stellar evolution models, aiming to conclusively determine which stars explode as supernovae, what these explosions look like, and which fail to explode entirely.